Origin

The kind of twit that is a silly or foolish person dates only from the 1930s and comes from an English dialect use that meant ‘a tale-bearer’. It may come from twit in the sense ‘to tease or taunt someone, especially in a good-humoured way’, which is a shortening of Old English ætwītan ‘reproach with’.

Origin

The kind of twit that is a silly or foolish person dates only from the 1930s and comes from an English dialect use that meant ‘a tale-bearer’. It may come from twit in the sense ‘to tease or taunt someone, especially in a good-humoured way’, which is a shortening of Old English ætwītan ‘reproach with’.